On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 09:40:35AM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
> One thing to look for on these machines: if you replace the MBR
> with GRUB or LILO or the like, they like to go into "system recovery
> mode" where they undo the changes you made. With these machines
> it is better (IMO) to let the
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> You may find that it all works better if you boot into windows and turn off
> virtual memory. also maybe turn off system restore. In the past, those two
> items have written unmoveable blocks on the disk and prevent the partition
> from being pr
You may find that it all works better if you boot into windows and turn
off virtual memory. also maybe turn off system restore. In the past,
those two items have written unmoveable blocks on the disk and prevent
the partition from being properly resized. Its been a over a year now,
though, so t
Søren Christensen wrote:
[snip]
The partition list lists two partitions, a small "unused" partition of 7
MB and a large partition which occupies the rest of the disk, formatted
with ntfs. Containing Win XP.
Can anyone guide me throug this proces?
Here's my setup for a dual boot Compaq Presa
Søren Christensen wrote:
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 12:30:05PM +0100, Paolo Pantaleo wrote:
2005/12/19, Søren Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
[snip]
However the issue still stands, I'm not able to change the size of the
one partition containing Win XP.
Well, here is another clue: qtparted re
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 03:51:51PM +0100, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:
>
> [Bero: please see my comments below about additional qtparted bugs]
>
> On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, [iso-8859-1] Søren Christensen wrote:
>
> > I'm not able to change the size of the one partition containing Win
> > XP.
> >
> > W
[Bero: please see my comments below about additional qtparted bugs]
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, [iso-8859-1] S?ren Christensen wrote:
> I'm not able to change the size of the one partition containing Win
> XP.
>
> Well, here is another clue: qtparted reports, that support for ntfs
> filesystem is not
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 12:30:05PM +0100, Paolo Pantaleo wrote:
> 2005/12/19, Søren Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Trying to install sarge (net-inst.) on a laptop (Compaq Presario 2100),
> > but fails to partitionate harddisk.
> >
> > Using Knoppix, qtparted started via root-konso
2005/12/19, Søren Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi!
>
> Trying to install sarge (net-inst.) on a laptop (Compaq Presario 2100),
> but fails to partitionate harddisk.
>
> Using Knoppix, qtparted started via root-konsole, qtparted reports:
> Unable to open /UNIOINFS/dev/hdc read-write (Read-only
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